THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Worldwide Legal Court docket stated Tuesday that it detected “anomalous exercise affecting its info methods” final week and took pressing measures to reply. It didn’t elaborate on what it referred to as a “cybersecurity incident.”
Court docket spokesman Fadi El Abdallah stated in a written assertion that further “response and safety measures are actually ongoing” with the help of authorities within the Netherlands, the place the court docket relies.
“Wanting ahead, the Court docket shall be constructing on current work presently underway to strengthen its cyber safety framework, together with accelerating its use of cloud expertise,” his assertion added.
The court docket declined to enter any extra element concerning the incident, however stated that because it “continues to analyse and mitigate the affect of this incident, precedence can be being given to making sure that the core work of the Court docket continues.”
The ICC has quite a few high-profile investigations and preliminary inquiries underway in nations around the globe and has prior to now been the goal of espionage.
Final 12 months, a Dutch intelligence company stated it had foiled a classy try by a Russian spy utilizing a false Brazilian identification to work as an intern on the court docket, which is investigating allegations of Russian warfare crimes in Ukraine and has issued a warfare crimes arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of non-public accountability for the abductions of youngsters from Ukraine.
In a written response to a request for remark, the Dutch international ministry stated: “Any malicious actions that undermine the Court docket’s cybersecurity or intrude with its capability to satisfy its mandate in a secure and safe method are of utmost concern to us. The Netherlands will proceed to help the ICC in addressing the incident.”